ROUND 1: 🇧🇭 Bahrain

FORMULA 1 GULF AIR BAHRAIN GRAND PRIX 2024

Circuit stats

  • First Grand Prix: 2004
  • Number of laps: 57
  • Circuit Length: 5.412 km
  • Race Distance: 308.238 km
  • Lap record: 1:31.447 Pedro de la Rosa (2005)
  • 2023 winner: Max Verstappen

Track Map

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  • noli
    2·
    8 months ago

    Yuki had been on kmag’s arse for 10+ laps without passing. Daniel just closed a 9 second gap to the two. Yuki was never passing. Daniel might’ve.

    It’s easy to say after the fact “bUt hE DidN’T PaSS hiM DiD hE?”, but u gotta look from the perspective from the race engineers. Who is most likely to get a pass: the guy who’s been trying and failing for 10 laps or the other guy who just closed a 9 second gap and is on a different strategy? Yuki just let his ego cloud his judgement, which is understandable in the heat of the moment but not in a dangerous “revenge” action 15 minutes later. IMO he should get at least a fine for that move after the checkered flag if not a time penalty. What he did was stupid and dangerous

    • exanime@lemmy.today
      1·
      8 months ago

      It’s easy to say after the fact “bUt hE DidN’T PaSS hiM DiD hE?”, but u gotta look from the perspective from the race engineers. Who is most likely to get a pass

      To what end? A 13th instead of a 14th? There is no way Daniel could have reached Zhou anyway

      Plus it never did look like Daniel could have passed Yuki without team orders… He didn’t gain a single spot in 50 laps